There's no doubt about it, it's head scratching time again. Once more it's time to give the old cranium a going over with the digits in wonderment at the news put out, enthusiastically by the BBC, that the Met Office has declared the summer of 2025 to be the hottest ever since records began.
Somehow or other, the real hottest summer for many of us with a few years under our belts is 1976, which has been quietly sidelined by the global warming fanatics at the Beeb and Met Office, who dutifully inform us this summer was much hotter. The chances are the bods at the BBC and Met Office are far too young to have experienced the real hot summer of 1976 when the sun shone relentlessly day in and day out for weeks, the heat was draining, and that summer seemed endless with people wishing for rain and cold weather. None of us who lived through it have experienced a summer like it since.
Recently I was telling someone, who was not born at the time, about that hottest ever summer of 76, that person did not seem to know anything about it and found it amusing when I told about Denis Howell being made the Minister for Drought - then it rained so much there were floods. He was known after that as the 'Minister for rain'.
For almost two years I have been taking three daily temperature readings from a thermometer which I have placed 70" up on the north facing side of my garden shed, which some, reading this, may have read the on this web-site in the past as to why I began this project. It was my way of disproving the deceit of those peddling global warming like the BBC and others, such as our lunatic no energy Minister, Ed Milliband, who through his dangerous actions has not only put our energy supply at risk but also increased, drastically, our energy bills which many, myself included, struggle to pay.
So what was the average temperature for this pleasant, and somewhat dry summer? My readings show that for the months of June, July and August 2025 the average was 68 Fahrenheit, which was warm and on some days quite hot, but far from exceptional and most definitely not the hottest summer ever, which brings me back to sorting out my few remaining follicles with my fingers and the question: hottest what?
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